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Date:      Sun, 14 Apr 2002 22:02:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Roger Marquis <marquis@roble.com>
To:        security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Subject: Affect of BSD mail/mailx bug in Solaris (was: Re: Corrected...
Message-ID:  <20020414215552.L18292-100000@roble.com>

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"Charles M. Richmond" <cmr@iisc.com> wrote:
>and the default root shell would have had to have been changed
>from 'sh' to 'csh'.  Not to say that Sun shouldn't fix this.

The default root shell only effects interactive sessions.  Solaris
cron scripts, rc scripts, and scripts which do not specify a shell
have always have been run under /bin/sh.  Pretty sure this is true
for FreeBSD as well.

-- 
Roger Marquis
Roble Systems Consulting
http://www.roble.com/


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